Four Degrees and Beyond Special Issue Journal

Tyndall Centre brings the latest climate change research to the UN Summit in Mexico. The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is a major contributor to a specially themed '4 degrees and beyond' edition of the Royal Society’s prestigious journal Philosophical Transactions A.

The special edition was released today to coincide with the start of the UN climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico. To enable the widest dissemination to climate change policy makers and non-academics, the papers in this normally specialist journal are open access and free to download

The collection of papers by leading international scholars from the Tyndall Centre, Oxford University, the Met Office and overseas institutes, explores the likelihood of large climate changes of 4 degrees and the potential impacts of these changes. The research addresses the challenges involved in avoiding high levels of warming, as well as the challenges of adaptation should society fail to do so. It stems from the first academic conference to analyse 4 degrees and beyond, last year by the Tyndall Centre.

An event in Cancun presenting the latest research on REDD+, a much discussed policy to limit deforestation

“Let’s just hope action to reduce radically our emissions of greenhouse gases more than compensates for those released by the many thousands who will be attending Cancun” said Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre.

“This is a time for radical thinking and courageous action, not only by our policy makers in Cancun, but also by academics, industry, the business community, NGOs, social institutions and all of us with a stake in the future.”

We recently published a new Working Paper and launch the Tyndall Travel Tracker App to the Tyndall Centre community. Our aim is to support the necessary transformation towards a professional low-carbon culture of work travel in climate change research. +

In the course of global urbanisation, the design of today’s transportation systems, buildings and other infrastructures will largely determine tomorrow’s CO2 emissions. Indeed, “going green” now in terms of infrastructure and buildings could cut future emissions in half. +

Increasingly frequent extreme weather events could threaten butterfly populations in the UK and could be the cause of recently reported butterfly population crashes, according to research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).+

HELIX is sponsoring two major climate change communication events to engage the general public. On Saturday 22 October at the Norwich Science Festival in the UK is the participatory discovery trail Theatre for families, You're Getting Warmer+

A new analysis finds that the 2°C (3.6º F) temperature target, the threshold for the world to avoid the worst effects of climate change, could be reached as soon as 2050, say seven of the world’s best climate scientists.